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It’s appropriate that the final performance by Dave Bald Eagle is in a film that stresses the importance of storytelling and preserving history. The American actor, who passed away last summer at the age of 97, was a man with stories. Acting may have been his least-interesting pursuit. According to his obituary, Bald Eagle was […]

The University of Calgary says it’s embarking on a new relationship with Indigenous people that will include recruiting more First Nations students. In a wide-ranging Indigenous strategy unveiled Thursday, U of C officials said the approach to reconciliation will be infused with the spirit of acceptance for First Nations students and others. “What’s really important […]

If a group of First Nations get their wish, Calgary will be renamed Wichispa Oyade — Stoney Nakoda terms that roughly translate to elbow town. The Stoney Nakoda have applied to have a long list of well-known places across southern Alberta changed to reflect traditional names given by their people — a conversation Calgary mayor […]

Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain is the name ceremonially granted in 2017 to the small mountain in the Banff townsite. Its previous name recalled a surveyor’s mistaken decision to put a tunnel through the small hill. Bill Snow, a Stoney from Morley, was at the Banff Centre recently, which hosted the first Indigenous Leaders’ Dialogue last […]

With Alberta yearning to get more oil through British Columbia to the Pacific coast, the two provincial governments are working out a process for Premier Jim Prentice to begin talks with B.C. First Nations. During his run for the Progressive Conservative leadership earlier this year, Prentice pledged to take part in direct discussions with First Nations on the west coast […]

Premier Jim Prentice is promising “new energy” and specific initiatives aimed at improving First Nations and Metis education, saying it is crucial to Alberta’s future well-being. Monday’s throne speech, the first since Prentice became premier, pledged the Progressive Conservative government will close the “unacceptable gaps in education achievement between aboriginal and non-aboriginal students.” “We’re all in this […]

Premier Jim Prentice pledged Friday to close the “unacceptable gaps” that exist economically between Alberta’s aboriginal population and the rest of the province. In a speech at Bow Valley College’s annual Premier’s Scholarship luncheon, Prentice said the Progressive Conservative government is “very conscious we have to do a much, much better job” in engaging all Albertans — and specifically aboriginal people — in the workforce as the province faces an ongoing labour shortage.

EDMONTON — First Nation leaders are hopeful Jim Prentice will address their long-standing issues over consultation on development and sharing non-renewable resource revenue, but they may start off on the wrong foot over their calls for an inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women. The new Alberta premier and self-appointed aboriginal relations minister said Tuesday he doesn’t believe a public inquiry is the right process to address the plight of aboriginal women and children.

As politicians, corporations, environmentalists and First Nations people continue to butt heads over pipeline construction, the former head of the historic Mackenzie Valley pipeline Inquiry says spending time in affected communities helps make the best decisions. Justice Thomas Berger spoke to a standing-room-only lecture hall at Mount Royal University Tuesday, one of several keynote speakers featured in a unique, broad-ranging conference on the environment.

Hundreds of people in First Nations communities across southern Alberta have been displaced after flooding took out critical roadways, submerged homes and affected drinking water. Since Thursday, at least 1,300 residents in six First Nations communities have been out of their homes.

Flood waters that devastated southern Alberta have left some First Nations communities “in an almost total state of destruction,” according to Treaty 7’s grand chief. Chief Charles Weaselhead said the level of devastation is so high, the rebuilding process will take years and cost millions of dollars.

With the federal cabinet giving the go-ahead to the Northern Gateway pipeline with conditions, candidates vying to become Alberta’s next premier are pledging to do whatever it takes to get the project built.

Ric McIver slammed Jim Prentice in a Tory leadership forum Thursday for leaving the job “undone” when he resigned a corporate position aimed at smoothing the path for the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline. Prentice had accepted a post in March with Enbridge to negotiate with British Columbia First Nations on the pipeline development.

EDMONTON — Records of Jim Prentice’s expenses when he served as a federal minister of aboriginal affairs have been destroyed, says the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Derek Fildebrandt, CTF Alberta director, said the federation made the discovery last week when it was attempting to obtain the former federal cabinet minister’s expenses to compare them with the records of other Progressive Conservative leadership candidates.

Cheryle Labelle was a 17-year-old addict when she had to give her first-born away for adoption. She got sober only to find herself in a marriage that turned abusive while she raised six children. In the spring of 2012, she took the first step to changing her life by entering a women’s shelter.

Chatting with MLA Craig Coolahan about the Alberta Heritage Fund this week, a more burning topic of public debate sparked up. Should the Alberta government run its own pot stores? The NDP MLA for Calgary-Klein said the topic keeps resurfacing, particularly as the deadline for public feedback on Alberta’s new marijuana framework wraps up Friday. […]

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